Tag Archives: Security

This is part #2 of a series on the OWASP Top 10 Proactive Controls, the 10 things you can do as a developer to make your application secure. In the previous post, I explained why Parameterized Database Queries are so important in protecting applications from SQL injection, one of the most common and dangerous attacks. SQL injection is only one ...

Recently, while at one of our customers’ site, the customer and I needed to get access to a database. On my machine, I had stored the password, but the customer obviously didn’t want to rely on my machine, and the password itself is hashed, so we couldn’t guess it. But guess what? Yes we can! I googled a bit, and ...

OWASP’s Top 10 Risk list for web applications is a widely recognized tool for understanding, describing and assessing major application security risks. It is used to categorize problems found by security testing tools, to explain appsec issues in secure software development training, and it is burned into compliance frameworks like PCI DSS. The OWASP Top 10 for web apps, and ...

Encrypting the communication between client and server provides improved security and privacy protection for your system. This can be an important requirement by the customer, especially if client or server need to work in an unprotected network. This article shows you how to setup SSL encrypted EJB calls in JBoss AS 7. Server There are only two things that need ...

It’s been some time since my last blog post – time for writing is rare. But today, I’m very happy that Oracle released the brand new April Critical Patch Update, fixing 37 vulnerabilities in our beloved Java (seriously, no kidding – Java is simply a great language!). With that being said, all vulnerabilities reported by my colleagues (credits go to Juraj Somorovsky, Sebastian ...

I learned about some interesting research from Dave Mortman at this year’s RSA conference in San Francisco which supports the Devops and Agile arguments that continuous, incremental, iterative changes can be made safely: a study by by the MIT Lincoln lab (Milk or Wine: Does Software Security Improve with Age?) and The Honeymoon Effect, by Sandy Clark at the University ...

Many websites (including big ones like Adobe, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Gawker, etc.) store user passwords insecurely. Either in plain text, or encrypted (reversible), or using a broken or brute-forceable hash function. Many websites continue to be built with poor password storage mechanism. So what? Well, if the database leaks somehow (and it obviously happens, see the link above), then users are ...

Websites hosted on Apache Tomcat servers seem to be vulnerable against denial-of-service attacks, as was recently proven by security researchers and presented in Denial-of-service vulnerability puts Apache Tomcat servers at risk. Apache Tomcat servers are widely used for hosting applications developed with the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies. Apache Commons FileUpload is a stand-alone library that developers ...

As was concluded in the first part of this series, security without randomness is impossible. Deterministic ciphers are unable to protect against strong attackers and true random generators are impractical or hard to get, so cryptography is build on pseudorandom generators. First two chapters of this post define what they are and explain what kind of pseudorandom generators secure cryptography ...

Overview Security has become a great topic of discussion in the last few years due to the recent releasing of documents from Edward Snowden and the explosion of hacking against online commerce stores like JC Penny, Sony and Target. While this post will not give you all of the tools to help prevent the use of illegally sourced data, this ...

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